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Palmer Luckey considering entering laptop market with US-made model

by mhb on 10/21/25, 10:20 PM with 8 comments

• by ggm on 10/21/25, 10:22 PM

  It will sell for a lot more than it's competition. It won't have a significant upside apart from being a shorter supply chain, and it will have a french metric tonne of non-US components and dependencies, without a great deal of hurt.

  None of this means he shouldn't do it. To the contrary. It's necessary, and it should probably be funded.

  If I had to rank concerns, outsourcing smart device management to Asia in the power and utility sector at large would be my #1 and #2 would be the lack of an independent supply chain for portable devices, because they go everywhere

• by ChrisArchitect on 10/21/25, 10:24 PM

  Story from July.

  Some discussion then: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44682672

• by nikolay on 10/22/25, 1:38 AM

  This guy is all over the place and is milking the MIC. I won't be surprised if these laptops are surveillance paradise... you know, to protect America from its foes.